Section: Entertainment
Kip’s Castle Concert Friday Night
The only one of the Essex County summer parks concerts that will be held in Verona will happen on Friday night, August 13, at 7:30 p.m., at Kip’s Castle. The featured group is the Garden State Concert Band, which will perform a variety of hits from the Big Band era, including songs by Glenn Miller, [...]
Kids, Don’t Try This At Home
Chris Place has been punched, kicked, lit on fire and hit by a car nine times. He’s fallen from high places, dodged a cannon blast and been grazed by musket fire. He was a thug for Tony Soprano and Jack Bauer has put a gun to his head. You’ve probably guessed by now that Place’s [...]
Joey Arminio Band To Play At Sonny’s
Sonny’s on the Avenue has been having music on the patio most Thursday nights this summer. This Thursday, August 12, the entertainment will be Verona’s own Joey Arminio Trio. The music starts at 7:30 p.m. So grab a bottle of wine from home and head on down. You can make a reservations to get for [...]
The Evolution Of A Puppet Maker
Everybody in the Verona High School class of 1993 knew James Wojtal Jr. would one day work for Muppet-maker Jim Henson. It was an easy guess about someone who’d been making puppets since kindergarten. Wojtal does make puppeteering seem easy as he glides Tank, a lovable but dim-witted orange fish through ImaginOcean, a kids puppet [...]
Improv Performance Features Verona Firefighter
As a member of Verona’s Fire Department and Rescue Squad, Steve Giblin is accustomed to having to think fast in an emergency. But tomorrow night, he is going to have to think fast on stage. Giblin will be part of a performance by an improvisation class at the New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts in [...]
Create A Dance For ‘Hairspray’
Do you love to dance? Do you think you could create a dance for a musical? Then hear this: The Paper Mill Playhouse has launched a contest that lets you choreograph part of the first show of its 2010-2011 season, Hairspray. The contest is called Hairspray’s Dance Invention and here’s what you have to do [...]
The Play’s The Thing
Ryan Smillie has had his time center stage. He acted and sang in just about every show at Verona High School before he graduated with the class of 2008. You may have seen him as the nefarious CEO Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown. Now Smillie’s running the show in a different sort of way. In [...]
Buffett + Pool = Party
First, a round of applause for whoever it was who proposed holding one of Verona’s summer concerts at Verona Pool instead of at the Civic Center. Then, another round of applause for Jimmy Hill, Jack O’Neil and the entire Lakeside Deli team for a delicious dinner menu. Oh, and Joey Arminio, who even though he [...]
Two Gentlemen Of Verona Light Up Shakespeare In The Park
It’s a twist of fate worthy of the Bard himself: This summer, the two Shakespearean plays currently being performed in Central Park showcase the work of not one but two lighting designers from Verona (New Jersey, not Italy). The first is Ken Posner, whose work has illuminated more than 35 Broadway musicals, including Wicked and The [...]
Bobby Lynch Band Coming Back
Maybe you missed seeing Bobby Lynch perform at Verona’s summer concert series on July 7. Maybe you want to see his astounding act again. Either way, you’re in luck. Lynch, who grew up in the Verona music system, will be bringing his Elton John tribute band, Bobby & The Jets, to Brookdale Park on Friday, [...]